Improved apparatus for carbureting air



S. R. DIVINE.

Carbureter.

Patented Sept. 4, 1866.

Witnesses= lnventon AM. PKDTO-LITHO-CO. N.Y. (USBORNES PROCESS.)

UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

SILAS R. DIVINE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CARBURETING AIR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 57,686, datedSeptember 4, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

,cessive walls or partitions of cloth or other suitable fabric, orthrough perforated partitions of any porous material.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

I construct a vessel of any of the known forms for containing a liquidhydrocarbon, and within it place boxes or cups of the porous materialpreferred, open at the bottom. These boxes or cups are of differentsizes, and, when properly arranged, form a series of hollow chambers.The gas or air being admitted into the inner chamber will pass throughthe pores, interstices, or perforations of the walls of that chamber tothe next, and so on through the series. The open mouthoi each cup orchamber descending into a liquid hydrocarbon will com pel the gas or airto rise upward and laterally and be exposed to largely-increased surfaceas it traverses the successive walls or partitions. The sides of thechambers being saturated with the hydrocarbon liquid by the power ofcapillary attraction, the gas or air as it escapes will be thoroughlyimpregnated with the vapor of the said hydrocarbon.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of theapparatus. Fig. is a horizontal section of the same.

A A A A, Fig. 1, is a vessel for containing the liquid hydrocarbon 5 B BB B, walls forming the chamber; 0, entrance-pipe for gas or air; D,exit-pipe for same; E, orifice for supplying liquid hydrocarbon.

Having explained the construction of my apparatus, what I desire tosecure by Letters Patent is- The use of chambers B B B B when placed onewithin another, and composed of porous or perforated walls,substantially as described.

SILAS B. DIVINE.

Witnesses STEPHEN J. DALLAS, EDM. F. BROWN.

